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I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.

Bill Murray

People confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
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Important People Relaxation
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Day Kissing Necks
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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Blood Giving Inspirational
You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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Film Giants Needs
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Awards Day Groundhog Script
Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
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Crosshairs Remember Take Thank
Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Buy Damage Everybody Napkin
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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Friendship New Stuff
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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Better Keep Needs Things
Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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Life Obligation Score
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
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Challenge Country People
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Father Lonely Mother
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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Giving Guy Independent
I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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Guy How Know Making Money
I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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Careers Pieces Thinking
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Alcohol Liquid Photoshop
I’d like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot – just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn’t give him the money. Just wouldn’t give him the money.
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Directors Giving Talking
Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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Downsizing Faster Fired
I don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
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Fans People Thinking
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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Believe Christmas Essence
Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little… poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who’s giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
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Giving Hard Times Want
When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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Amazing Diesel Organism Stuff
Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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Date Make Party Pick Travel
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
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Exciting Islands Laughing Rip

I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.

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